GRE Word List
SUSTENANCE
means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living
The meaning of the word sustenance is means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living.
Random words
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uninhibited | free from inhibition |
berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
reminiscent | of the character of or relating to reminiscence |
executor | one who executes something |
scabbard | a sheath for a sword, dagger, or bayonet |
vise | any of various tools with two jaws for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam |
nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
queasy | causing nausea |